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Zinn Education Project Back to School KitTools for bringing people's history to the classroom

RegisterAccess hundreds of teaching activities

ShareTell friends, colleagues, and students

VisitFind us at upcoming conferences

Like"This Day in People's History" posts and news

   

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Check out the list of educatorconferences across the country.

Join more than 207,000 people receiving"This Day in People's History" posts.

Need classroom­friendly Facebook access? Clickhere.

DownloadPopular teaching activities

ReadArticles about what's missing from textbooks  

The People vs.Columbus, et al.   U.S. Mexico War:"We Take Nothing byConquest, Thank God" Rethinking the U.S.Constitutional Convention:A Role Play  The Power In Our Hands: A Curriculum on theHistory of Work and Workers in the UnitedStates

The Real Irish American StoryNot Taught in Schools  Who Stole HelenKeller?

Ten Things You Should Know About Selma BeforeYou See the Film

A People's History of Muslims in the United States 

Lying to Children About the California Missions andthe Indians 

Rethinking SchoolsSubscribe to the magazine

Teaching for Change Best selection of multicultural books   

   A must­read for everyone  involved in education

Carefully selected books for pre­K to adulton social justice issues

 

 

Teaching Guide School Planner

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 A People's Curriculum for the Earth:Teaching Climate Change and the

Environmental CrisisEdited by Bill Bigelow and Tim SwinehartArticles, student readings, and teaching activitiesto understand environmental problems and

imagine solutions. Learn more.

  Planning To Change the World:

A Plan Book for Social Justice TeachersBy New York Collective of Radical

Educators (NYCoRE)Plan book designed to help teachers translatetheir vision of a just education into concrete

classroom activities. Learn more.

 

If We Knew Our History Article Voting Rights History Quiz

 It's Constitution Day! Time to Teach

Obedience or History?By Bill Bigelow

Teaching about the Constitution requires a criticaland nuanced exploration­­­­one that is alert to the

race and class issues at the heart of ourgoverning document. Read more.

  Voting Rights Act History Quiz

By Teaching for ChangeLearn some of the history of the struggle for

voting rights that is all too often omitted from thetextbooks. Read more.

 

Happy birthday, Howard Zinn!

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The Value of Skepticism and BreakingDown Barriers with StudentsAugust 24 would have been Howard Zinn's 93rdbirthday. On this occasion, we share this excerpt abouthow Zinn built trust with students. He recalls "byshowing them that outside the classroom I was notretreating into my home and my study.... I wasinvolved in the social struggle that related to their lives.And when they decided to participate in this struggle...Iwas with them, I was walking on picket lines withthem, I was engaging in demonstrations with them, Iwas sitting in with them. And that, more than anything,created an atmosphere of trust, of democracy in ourrelationship." Continue reading.  

 

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